Re: Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-16 Thread Jason Pearce
This is rather late because I only follow the digest, but I've looked into Perl/TK a bit with Cygwin. Initially I found it all to be fairly disappointing, not least because when I finally got things "working" Perk/TK gave limited widgets and was prone to crashes. My current solution is to use

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Kairys
"Michael Kairys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's all pretty disappointing, compared to ActiveState's implementation, which looks much better and requires no setup, no extraneous directories on my path, and no otherwise uneeded daemons. A little research rev

RE: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 December 2007 03:12, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> DynaLoader is just spitting out the bog-standard canned error message >> that perror() returns for ENOENT. > Oh I totally understand that. I guess what I'm saying is - could it be a > wee bit more, ahem, helpful! >> There's cer

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Reini Urban wrote: 2007/12/13, Andrew DeFaria: I'll say it again, it would be wonderful if Perl/Tk would work with regular win32 graphical elements but nobody has bothered to develop that. Cygwin perl-Tk for native Win32 worked fine for several years, but stopped working some years ago. Since t

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: DynaLoader is just spitting out the bog-standard canned error message that perror() returns for ENOENT. Oh I totally understand that. I guess what I'm saying is - could it be a wee bit more, ahem, helpful! There's certainly no reason why it couldn't look out for that particula

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
"Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin perl-Tk for native Win32 worked fine for several years, but stopped working some years ago. Since the maintainer is dead, the situation didn't improve. Wwll, I'm sorry to hear that, for our sakes. I have resolve

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Reini Urban
2007/12/13, Andrew DeFaria: > I'll say it again, it would be wonderful if Perl/Tk would work with > regular win32 graphical elements but nobody has bothered to develop that. Cygwin perl-Tk for native Win32 worked fine for several years, but stopped working some years ago. Since the maintainer is d

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Michael Kairys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . I'll say it again, it would be wonderful if Perl/Tk would work with regular win32 graphical elements but nobody has bothered to develop that. Well, ActiveState has :) Actually, I don't think ActiveState do anythin

RE: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 December 2007 15:30, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> On 13 December 2007 14:55, Andrew DeFaria wrote: (When it comes to DynaLoader you gotta learn to read the fine print and make intuitive leaps :-) >>> Yes but it did indeed state "No such file or directory...". Would i

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Michael Kairys wrote: "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll say it again, it would be wonderful if Perl/Tk would work with regular win32 graphical elements but nobody has bothered to develop that. Well, ActiveState has :) ... and thank you for the e

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: On 13 December 2007 14:55, Andrew DeFaria wrote: (When it comes to DynaLoader you gotta learn to read the fine print and make intuitive leaps :-) Yes but it did indeed state "No such file or directory...". Would it be that hard for DynaLoader.pm to mention exactly which file it

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
"Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll say it again, it would be wonderful if Perl/Tk would work with regular win32 graphical elements but nobody has bothered to develop that. Well, ActiveState has :) ... and thank you for the explanation. --

RE: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 December 2007 14:55, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> (When it comes to DynaLoader you gotta learn to read the fine print >> and make intuitive leaps :-) > Yes but it did indeed state "No such file or directory...". Would it be > that hard for DynaLoader.pm to mention exactly which file it was looki

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Sisyphus wrote: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' for module Tk: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line 230. However /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll is in fact there: Yes ... but note that the error messag

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
"Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Run cygcheck /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll There you will find the missing libraries. Thank you! I get "Error: could not find cygX11-6.dll" That's not entirely true. Tk works fine without X. Jus

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Kairys
"Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes ... but note that the error message doesn't actually say that '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' could not be found. In fact, it says that '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' co

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Michael Kairys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:26 PM . . Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' for module Tk: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line 230. Howev

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Reini Urban
2007/12/13, Michael Kairys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There seems to be something broken in my Perl installation re. Tk, or > perhaps I'm missing something, or just ignorant. If I run a script > containing (only) "use Tk" I get: > > Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' for